What is the Kinectic Energy of the baseball?

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A baseball of mass 143 g is thrown with a velocity of < 22, 15, -12 > m/s. What is the kinetic energy of the baseball?


Homework Equations


K=1/2mv^2



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i got < 34.6, 16.1, 10.3 > J
but webassign says i am wrong? what am i doing wrong?
 
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i plugged it into the equation first i converted grams to kg then did 1/2mv^s